Building on what seems to be a new subgenre of political journalism, the New Republic has a long piece about how the Heritage Foundation has allegedly changed under Jim DeMint’s leadership.
What caught my eye was reporter Julia Ioffe’s reference to the development of the Heritage immigration study I co-authored with Robert Rector. Here’s her sentence: “Policy analysts were shut out of the discussion, and the paper, which was written to conform with DeMint’s anti-immigration stance, did not go through the standard vetting procedure.”
All three claims in that sentence are flat-out false. But why worry about facts when you've got a great (made-up) story to tell?
One wonders how accurate the rest of her piece could be.[More]
Then you read what the same reporter, or another one on the same paper has to say about Obamacare, the "knockout game" or public policy disputes within conservatism and you forget that the reporter is an idiot, and works for a paper that hires idiots.
Jason Richwine has been written about so much by idiots that he’s unable to forget that.
